Format incoming string...

[Former Member]

hello all,

i have the following string that i'm reading into my program:

122400724 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX20060623150029 000000000000001200000012000000000187140110

This is the header record.

i need to put it in the following format:

1234567890 20060623 H

'H' is the record indicator for header

The structure that i need to put it in is:

DATA:

BEGIN OF t_HEADER,

BANK_NUM(10) type n,

FILLER_1(10) type c,

DATE type sy-datum,

FILLER_2(10) type c,

REC_IND1(1) type c,

END OF t_HEADER.

Then I have the detail and trailer records for which i have the following structure.

DATA:

BEGIN OF t_DETAILS OCCURS 100,

BANKN(10) type n,

CHECT(10) type n,

ZALDT type sy-datum,

AMNT(10) type c,

REC_IND2(1) type c,

ZNME1(20) type c,

END OF t_DETAILS.

DATA:

BEGIN OF t_TRAILER,

FILLER_3(10) type c,

ITEM_COUNT(9) type c,

FILLER_4(1) type c,

ZALDT1 type sy-datum,

PPT_AMOUNT(10) type c,

PPT_REC_IND(1) type c,

END OF t_TRAILER.

For details I have the following data coming that i accordingly need to put in my format.

Details:

000990127847 000007440288 000007440288 xxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx xx 0000000000000120002006050100

There is no trailer record, I have to put in the data according to the structure defined above.

I also need to replace the bank_num in the header with bankn in details.

Your help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

Fred.

[christian_wohlfahrt]

Hi Fred!

Just define some more structures for header and position, which match your incoming string. E.g. first filler in header has about 20 chars, then comes date+time field and so one. Then you can assign matching parts to your output structure, also some other replacements are possible.

header-date = string_header-datetime(8).

Hope you got the idea,

Christian

[Former Member]

Hi,

In the header, the date is available immediately after the X's. So based on my structure, after the first string, i need to put 10 blank spaces, then shift the date replacing the X's and delete the trailing numbers after the date. After the date, i need to put 10 blank spaces again and put the record indicator 'H'.

Would i still be able to achieve this if my i make 2 diff. structures, one for original string and the other how i want it to be and then explicitly assigning the values i want. how would i deal with the blank spaces i need to put?

Thanks.

Fred.

[christian_wohlfahrt]

Hi Fred!

Maybe you should more think in 'I take what I need' instead of shifting...

Space you can get, when you clear your target structure (or don't fill at all), an H you can assign hardcoded. Because of the structure definition, you will have the data in the right place (there is no shrinking, if you move values to fields of a structure - concatenate is only leaving one space (in earlier releases)).

So yes, you just can fill spaces and H by yourself.

Regards,

Christian